Name/Title
Runner: Miller 205, c.1957Description
A Country Prints production sample retained as a print record.
A table runner with a six-color silkscreen print on white linen depicting a miller and a young girl opposite a mill with a water wheel, along with the materials and tools for baking bread. An off-center medallion states, “Remember the miller when you eat your bread.”
This runner is listed on the 1958 Country Prints price list and appears on a Country Prints packing slip of the same time period.
Edges are straight stitched and fringed.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Robert Darr WertRole
ArtistManufacturer
Country PrintsDate made
circa 1957Time Period
20th CenturyPlace
Location
Gill MA.Continent
North AmericaInscription/Signature/Marks
“wert”, lower left corner, and “by hand”, lower right corner.Material
Bleached Linen, Textile Ink, Country Prints tagColor
Teal, Yellow Ochre, Brown, Green, Red, Black
